Intro

This is the official process to check out OMP with the PKP library as a sub-module.

Create github.com user

Go to github.com and create a user account. Log in to your user account.

Delete existing personal forks

First you have to delete existing personal forks of omp/pkp-lib if you have cloned these repositories before. You obviously shouldn't do this when there are still changes in there you don't have in other locations!

Add the official repository

The 'official' respositories can be compared to the role that PKP's old CVS repositories used to fill. Adding the official branch allows you to synchronize your code with the rest of the team, and should be pulled from before creating a patch or making a commit.

Create development branches

Create development branches in the main project and the sub-module. I'll use the branch "modal" here but this is arbitrary. The branch name should represent the development topic you intend to work on. Also am I assuming here that you want to develop off the master branch. There my be scenarios however where it might be more practical to develop off another developer's branch. In that case you can replace "official/master" by any other remote or local branch you want to base your work on.

Never develop directly on the master branch. We can use the master branch to track released code and tested changes.

Start pulling changes

Now you can start pulling in changes from other people's repositories. The following is just an example. See for yourself what others are working on (or better: ask them) and pull in what you need to get started.

You may get merge conflicts, if the repository you pull from did not merge in all changes from CVS already. See man git-merge for more info on how to solve merge conflicts.

If you want to see another developer's code without merging it into your branch (e.g. because you just want to have a look at it or test it without developing off it), you'll want to pull their branch into its own branch. Use 'git stash' if you have uncommitted changes you want to save. I.e. execute: